Moving On Up - The New Attic |
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
A house attic does not evoke images of style and chic design.
Rather, we find ourselves thinking of dark, cobweb-infested, damp and
dreary crawl spaces. We think of attics as leftover space under the
roof where we abandon unwanted stuff – outdated clothing, old books,
grandma’s hat boxes, grandpa’s hunting gear, coin collections and bags
of seashells from that long-ago beach holiday.
But as space in our urban areas is at a premium - not a square metre
can go to waste. Architects and designers are starting to see the
potential of this extra space, and offer solutions that meet the needs
of the most demanding style freaks. Sunlight, additional rooms, extra
bathrooms — it is all possible in the attic. Starchitects around the
world have made dramatic rooflines trendy, so we can all give up on our
visions of the embarrassing drywalled and pine-paneled disasters that
attics tended to morph into, every time we tried to make them livable.
Within very few square metres, designers are finding space for
sleeping, cooking and eating, and using the sloping rooflines to create
impressive skylight windows.
We can all see the delightful benefits of maximising the amount of
livable and usable space – even if it involves clearing away the
precious collections of bric-a-brac we’ve spent generations
accumulating. Ample sunlight penetrating the attic apartment means than
even nocturnal arachnids are sent packing. By Andrew J Wiener and Tuija Seipell
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